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Westminster College Modern Language Professor Attends Conference

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Posted on Tuesday, November 7, 2000

Dr. Ann L. Murphy, assistant professor of French and Spanish at Westminster College, recently attended the 50th annual Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) in Radford, Virginia.

While at the conference, Murphy presented a paper, "Origins, Loss, and Redemption in Patrick Modiano's Voyage de noces and Dora Bruder." "I wanted to show how the two works of the title express, and then resolve, issues connected to the author's relationship to his father, a French Jew who survived the Holocaust," said Murphy.

Murphy also chaired a session on French culture that included papers on immigration in Quebec, women and politics in contemporary France, and popular French theatre of the 19th century.

Murphy, who has been with Westminster College since 1995, earned her undergraduate degree from the Clark University, and her master's and Ph.D. from Brown University. She is also a member of the editorial board of the MIFLC Review, which publishes selected proceedings from the conference.